My Idea of a start menu
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My Idea of a start menu
I had a random brainwave recently and this is what came out of it:
The tabbed start menu!
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This is it with the standard application tab open:
it displays all standard applications for Internet Browsing, E-Mails, Media Player, Messaging and Graphics!
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this is the all programs tab. Click on a program group and it's opened in the start menu like in Vista
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maybe a "Go up"-Button is missing...
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so these are the recently used applications...
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and this the other well known startmenu elements in Windows
though... I forgot recent documensts...
also notice the keyword box!
You type in a keyword and choose if you want to search or run it! (Buttons)
What do you think?
The tabbed start menu!
[ external image ]
This is it with the standard application tab open:
it displays all standard applications for Internet Browsing, E-Mails, Media Player, Messaging and Graphics!
[ external image ]
this is the all programs tab. Click on a program group and it's opened in the start menu like in Vista
[ external image ]
maybe a "Go up"-Button is missing...
[ external image ]
so these are the recently used applications...
[ external image ]
and this the other well known startmenu elements in Windows
though... I forgot recent documensts...
also notice the keyword box!
You type in a keyword and choose if you want to search or run it! (Buttons)
What do you think?
I like this idea, it looks very good
but as aart3k said, look at openSUSE's kickoff http://en.opensuse.org/Kickoff.... they've made several surveys and studies on the way the start menu should work and that's why KDE is adopting it too...
but as aart3k said, look at openSUSE's kickoff http://en.opensuse.org/Kickoff.... they've made several surveys and studies on the way the start menu should work and that's why KDE is adopting it too...
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ROS Logo in the Win Logo Space?
I assume you would have the ReactOS logo in the place where the Windows logo is?
It looks really nice. 8)
It looks really nice. 8)
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Hi,
For those who didn't find it: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html
I think that kind of start menu is really good. However, the respective implementation might vary in some points (e.g. tabs at the top or at the bottom, description of the textbox, icons etc.).
Cheers,
Paul
For those who didn't find it: http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html
I think that kind of start menu is really good. However, the respective implementation might vary in some points (e.g. tabs at the top or at the bottom, description of the textbox, icons etc.).
Cheers,
Paul
Hi,
One question I always wanted to ask to topics of this kind:
Are your screenshots made in Photoshop or did you really write a stand-alone windows program?
If not, try do produce some code that could be eventually brought into the svn, or find someone that could do that. The problem is: I think there was already some kind of task bar and start menu developed, but it did not show up in ReactOS because it heavily relied on the shell-API (which is not that much implemented at the moment when I am right).
I think at some point in the future, ReactOS will need a "explorer initiative" for a proper implementation of the start menu, task bar and ReactOS explorer. A "strings and icons review" wouldn't be wrong in the future, too, IMHO.
Cheers,
eXile.
One question I always wanted to ask to topics of this kind:
Are your screenshots made in Photoshop or did you really write a stand-alone windows program?
If not, try do produce some code that could be eventually brought into the svn, or find someone that could do that. The problem is: I think there was already some kind of task bar and start menu developed, but it did not show up in ReactOS because it heavily relied on the shell-API (which is not that much implemented at the moment when I am right).
I think at some point in the future, ReactOS will need a "explorer initiative" for a proper implementation of the start menu, task bar and ReactOS explorer. A "strings and icons review" wouldn't be wrong in the future, too, IMHO.
Cheers,
eXile.
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